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...early season game the interest in today's contest is without precedent. Last year Holy Cross played in the Stadium to a gallery of twenty-four thousand and the year before that the attendance was even less noteworthy. But this year the ticket-offices have been forced to hang out S. R. O. signs, and the crowd is not going to be dominated by Crimson sympathies, by any means. The visitors will pack their half of the stands, and they have come prepared to offer odds...
...could not have differed radically from the first production at Covent Garden in 1839, save in the merits of the acting. Judging from appearances the scenery might have been a treasured heir-loom from the store-house of Macready. The incidental music that was played throughout was a complete hang-over from the first performance. Encouragement may be had, however, from the size--if not the warmth--of the audience which welcomed Mr. Mantell back to Boston...
...insult to a man of his mettle (says Mr. Bell), with so many high crimes to his account, to hang him for having killed a common seaman on his own ship by banging him over the head with a bucket...
...never notable for such niceties where murder was concerned. Hang him they did, on May 24, 1701, and he protested his innocence to the last...
...then to stop. Consider the tutors of the English department, their merits, demerits, and absence, and stop. Stop before so much as considering the advisability of compulsory Chapel. Expostulate on the pseudo-stone pillars on University Hall now painted white and palpably wooden; on the stone steps therein that hang upon no visible support; on any subject connected with the architecture of the most beautiful building in the Yard (barring Hollis) but at that point, stop...